Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Cattle Moving on The Trail in Fine Con-
di ton and Never Healthier than
at the Present Time.
A wonderful Colt With Three Eyes AND
Two Sets of Nostrils-Prices of
Butchers stock-Personal.

4 general and heavy movement of beef
cattle from Texas will begin by June %.
Colonel B. B. Groome, for some time
manager of the Frsncklyn Land and
cattle Company, was in Fort Worth yes
terday.
Local butchers are paying % cents for
steers: 4 cents for hogs, with very few
selling, and l462t Genus for sheep. Beef
cattle and sheep are reported extra fine
for the season.
-Four stocBmen in Terrant county will
sbip 700 head of beef cattle to St. Louis
and Chicago by June 10. One bunch of
10 the owner says will average 1900
pounds when shipping day comes.
Thorp Andrews, agent of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, says all reports from
tbe trail and from Colorado are to the
effect that everything is moving smoothly
and cattle never freer from disease.
-
Several trains of cattle will 90 from
Fort Worth over the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe to Red Rock, 1. T. to-day and
saturday. The bulk of these cattle come
rom points on the Texas and Pacific, and
20 TO Territory pastures to mature.
The Missouri Pacific continues to make |
inc time on cattle from Fort Worth to
ST Louis and Chicago. They feed only |
once between here and st. Louis, andI
twice to Chicago The Jot Smith ship
ment proved complete success, and the |
- g
ments.
The Texas Stockmsn says; A friend |
VINO has q sheep ranch on DEVILS river, |
sas that he would probably not have
raised any lambs this year worth speaking |
of had it not been for sOtOl, |
snd declares it to be one of
the best producing feeds for |
sheep within his knowledge. The state |
ment has been confirmed by numerous !
other western sheepmen some OF whom |
nave FED it to their focks for several
years.
c II Myers, Sphinx county, Dakota,
writes TO an exchange: | challenge any
man to show that milet causes Indiges-
ton, cole, heaves, and other troubles,
anv more than other hay. There is no
objection on account Of builkiness.
Horses do well on it, are free from
worms, and look sleek; but it affects
the kidneys, and horses fed On
it viii sooner or later suCCumb to its ef-
iects. They become weak IN the back,
unable to get up, but will continue to
eat for some length of time, and ap-
pear well, except the weakness in
the back. It effects a mare in foal worse
than gcIdings, and l would advise
not TO feed it TO them at all. 1t is
an excellent feed for colts, by feeding it
once day, and straw once. My expert
euce with milet cost me q brood mare,
yes advocate mniet, if fed with care.
Fer cattle and sheep there is no better
feedH
a Michigan correspondent of the Hus-
5audman writes thus OF the red polled
COW: "Seeing an article in the Husband
msg about the general purpose COW,
thought ! would give my experience
finding this much sought for prize.
Having been a breeder of Durham and
3frerward of Hereford cattle, I have
now found realization Of my idea of the
general purpose cow in the Red POlled
breed I have had these cattle for the
last i've years, and l think they Eli the
bill. They are good looking, being
uniform red in color, they are polled
Or uornless, and if turned in pas
ture with other stock there is no
danger Of your horses or sheep getting
g0red. These cattle are good feeders,
easy keepers, kind and docile. They are
equal to the Jerseys for dairy purposes,
making as much butter in quantity and
IS good butter in quality, and after you
are through with them for the dairy they
make No. ! beef"
An Arizona paper, Hoof and Horn, is
authority for the following, which, per-
maps, should be taken with some allow
suCe: "Colonel Charles W. Beach
Of Kirkland Valley stock farm is the
owner Of a two-weeks' old colt that
IS curiosity unrivaled in the
history of the equine montrosi-
ties. The colt in question
was ioaled from fine brood mare, the
sire being an imported Percheron stud.
lis peculiar features are three eyes, two
Of which occupy the usual locality in the
head, while the third is placed midway
between them. The eyes are all endOw-
ed with vision and the only apparent
difference between them is that ,
the middle one is much the largest, while
the other two are OF normal size. Each
eye is in possession of an upper and lower
ayelid, delicately fringed wi h eyelashes,
but while the two in the customary
locality diminish gradually toward
ne outer edge of the head,
The lids belonging to the middle
eve look, when closed, like the segments
Of 8 circle. In addition to these three
eyes the colt sports a double sets of nos
.rilS, both of which are perfectly defined,
snd in breathing each sets appear to work
in harmony with the lungs. Aside
from these features the colt is {
We'll shaped and appears to be in ]
s very healthy condition, while the csre
and attention that II has so far received
mske it SO very gentle and affectionate {
that it takes every means of counting pet
ting from the many curious sight seers
that visit it. No explanation of salts
factory nature has yet been advanced to
show why or how this curious freak OF
nature was occasioned."
Sold n Half Interest.
Special TO the Gazette.